Robert Alexander Anderson (born January 26, 1946) is an American portrait artist known for painting the official portraits of George W. Bush and Alan Greenspan as well as designing United States postage stamps.
[3] He served in the United States Naval Reserve between 1969 and 1972 where he saw combat duty in Vietnam.
Anderson's first job after art school was as an illustrator for the John H. Breck Company, helping relaunch the "Breck Girls" campaign, creating pastel portraits of women for print and television advertising.
[6][4][5] Between 1984 and 1989 he worked under contract for the United States Postal Service creating U. S. postage stamps in the Great Americans series including portraits of John Harvard, Red Cloud and Sitting Bull.
[5][9] He has also created official portraits of Department of Homeland Security secretaries Tom Ridge and Michael Chertoff as well as official portraits of former Massachusetts governors William F. Weld and Edward J.